Marcus B Boon

Marcus Boon teaches contemporary literature and cultural theory. His interests include literature in the digital age, critical theory, the Beats and other alternative and countercultures, sound studies, and the cultural study of spirituality and religion. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002) and In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010). He edited America! A Prophecy: The Sparrow Reader (Soft Skull, 2006) and Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno (Soft Skull, 2008) and wrote the introduction to Walter Benjamin's On Hashish (Harvard UP, 2006). He writes about music and sound for The Wire. He is currently working on a book entitled The Politics of Vibration. His website is www.marcusboon.com.

Degrees

Ph.D., New York University
M. A., New York University
B. A., University College London

All Publications

Books

In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010).

The Road of Excess: A History of Writers and Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002).

Book Chapters

“From the Right to Copy to Practices of Copying” in Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creative Canadian Culture Online, eds. Rosemary Coombe and Darren Wershler, (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

“Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My MP3 Collection” in Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, ed. David Banash and Kevin Moist (Scarecrow Press, 2013).

"Digital Mana: On the Source of the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies in Contemporary Culture.” in Cutting Across Media: Interventionist Collage and the Politics of Appropriation, ed. Kembrew McLeod and Rudy Kuenzli (Duke UP, 2011).

“The Eternal Drone” in Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music ed. Rob Young (20 p., Continuum, 2003)

Forthcoming

"To Live in a Glass House is a Revolutionary Virtue Par Excellence: Marxism, Buddhism and the Politics of Non-Alignment" in Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism and Critical Theory w. Timothy Morton and Eric Cazdyn (no publisher, forthcoming).

Current Courses

Term

Course Number

Section

Title

Type

Fall/Winter 2016-2017

AP/EN3440 6.0

A

Contemporary Literature

SEMR

Marcus Boon teaches contemporary literature and cultural theory. His interests include literature in the digital age, critical theory, the Beats and other alternative and countercultures, sound studies, and the cultural study of spirituality and religion. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002) and In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010). He edited America! A Prophecy: The Sparrow Reader (Soft Skull, 2006) and Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno (Soft Skull, 2008) and wrote the introduction to Walter Benjamin's On Hashish (Harvard UP, 2006). He writes about music and sound for The Wire. He is currently working on a book entitled The Politics of Vibration. His website is www.marcusboon.com.

Degrees

Ph.D., New York University
M. A., New York University
B. A., University College London

All Publications

Books

In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010).

The Road of Excess: A History of Writers and Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002).

Book Chapters

“From the Right to Copy to Practices of Copying” in Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creative Canadian Culture Online, eds. Rosemary Coombe and Darren Wershler, (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

“Meditations in an Emergency: On the Apparent Destruction of My MP3 Collection” in Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, ed. David Banash and Kevin Moist (Scarecrow Press, 2013).

"Digital Mana: On the Source of the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies in Contemporary Culture.” in Cutting Across Media: Interventionist Collage and the Politics of Appropriation, ed. Kembrew McLeod and Rudy Kuenzli (Duke UP, 2011).

“The Eternal Drone” in Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music ed. Rob Young (20 p., Continuum, 2003)

Forthcoming

"To Live in a Glass House is a Revolutionary Virtue Par Excellence: Marxism, Buddhism and the Politics of Non-Alignment" in Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism and Critical Theory w. Timothy Morton and Eric Cazdyn (no publisher, forthcoming).